The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 141
“Oh dear! no,” said the Princess, “not until you have brought me some water from the Gloomy Cavern.
Who acts: Princess, you · What happens: say, not bring · To what, where: water, Princess, Gloomy Cavern · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Oh | xcomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 brought | advmod |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 brought | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | obj |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Cavern | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Cavern | det |
| 23 | Gloomy | Gloomy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Cavern | compound |
| 24 | Cavern | Cavern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not bring in a quote | present · perfect | you | some water | the Princess = princess | the Gloomy Cavern | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination water=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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